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Tateyama castle, home base of the Satomi clan, which despite being badly outgunned would never fall to the Hojo.Hideyoshi orders the attack on Odawara, from the late Edo/early Meiji Era, by Utagawa Toyonobu. Where the main narrative of Japanese history mentions the latter Hojo, it tends to emphasize the moment of their destruction as the completion of Hideyoshi’s ambition to reunify Japan. There are, however, plenty of other valid reasons to study them!A map of the forces arrayed against the Hojo during the 1590 siege. Useful for seeing just how impressive the forces Hideyoshi had arrayed (the blue markers) were.The graves of the latter Hojo leadership remain popular tourist destinations. This particular one is Ujimasa’s.

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